Spiral inductor modeling for RFIC using RLCK model order reduction

Conference paper (2006)
Copyright: © 2006 Papadopoulos, P.; Bantas, S.; Stefanou, S.; Silvant, M; Goujon, J.P.
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06-09-2006

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Abstract

Accurate and reliable models for integrated spiral inductors are required at design time of integrated circuits dedicated for RF applications. Electromagnetic solvers require long simulation times, especially taking into account advanced technology improvements like thick metal layers, substrate effects, etc. VeloceRF is a tool dedicated to analyse and model integrated spiral inductors. It is integrated into the design environment. Intelligent model order reduction needs to be used on the parasitics generated by VeloceRF in order to speed up the simulation times by another order of magnitude. This paper is about the successful application of VeloceRF and Jivaro on a WLAN power amplifier testcase.

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